| TARSUS | Ancient capital of Cilicia in modern- day Turkey; the birthplace of St Paul (6) |
| LYSTRA | Ancient city in modern-day Turkey - where St Paul healed a lame man (6) |
| SMYRNA | Ancient city in modern-day Turkey, now called Izmir |
| ASSISI | Which town in Italy was the birthplace of St Francis, who founded the Franciscan order there in 1209? (6) |
| ANGKOR | Site of the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire in N.W. Cambodia (6) |
| TROJAN | Inhabitant of an ancient city in present-day Turkey, thought for many years to be a myth (6) |
| THEBES | Ancient capital of Upper Egypt, on the site of modern Luxor (6) |
| RENNES | University city in N.W. France that was the ancient capital of Brittany (6) |
| ROMANS | New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul (6) |
| BATMAN | City of southeast Turkey; the name of a superhero |
| HITTITE | Member of an ancient people of Anatolia who settled in modern-day Turkey in the early second millennium BC (7) |
| ANTIOCH | Ancient city in modern-day Turkey that was a centre of St Paul's missions (7) |
| THEBAN | Native of the ancient capital of Egypt |
| DIOGENES | Greek philosopher from Sinope, in modern-day Turkey, a proponent of the ideological school of Cynicism (8) |
| THORNHILL | Dorset-born painter in the Baroque manner whose grisaille murals of the life of St Paul, in the dome of the cathedral dedicated to said apostle, can be viewed from the Whispering Gallery designed by S |
| EDESSA | Ancient capital of Macedonian kings |
| SPARTA | Ancient capital of Laconia |
| MIDAS | Legendary king of Phrygia (modern-day Turkey), as in the variegated cultivar of ivy: '___ Touch' (5) |
| LYDIA | Ancient kingdom situated in modern-day Turkey (5) |
| PETRA | Ancient capital of the Nabataean kingdom, in modern-day Jordan; one of the New 7 Wonders of the World (5) |
